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Government Documents For All: The Congressional Record, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

The Witch Of Pungo: Grace Sherwood In Virginia History And Legend, A Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

Scott O. Moore Charlottesville: Rivanna Books, 2024 ISBN: 9780813951300 298 p. $24.95 (Pbk)

News From The States

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Sela News

The Southeastern Librarian

News from the Southeastern Library Association

The President’S Column, Laura Slavin

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

The Sisyphean Struggle Of Librarianship, A Blake Denton

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Nursing Student Research Skills Through Library Engagement, Maletta Payne

Southern University and A&M College: John B. Cade Library Publications

This article examines the experience of a Library Liaison at Southern University and A&M College who organized and facilitated a Library Day for over seventy undergraduate nursing students, providing instruction on locating quantitative research articles and responding to students’ research inquiries in real time.

A Different Perspective: Maslow’S Hierarchy & Information Literacy, Brian W. Keith, Amy Odwarka

All Faculty Scholarship

This presentation offers an innovative conceptual framework for intellectual freedom drawn from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The adapted system positions information literacy in a progressive journey tied to a student's academic growth, evolving from basic participation to advanced knowledge creation and intellectual independence. With this guide, libraries can structure information literacy supports based on the progression of student needs, some of which are foundational to success in library instruction settings. Universities can evaluate whether their supports—through libraries, technology, and academic services—are meeting students' needs at each level, ultimately guiding them toward becoming confident, independent researchers and scholars.

Creative Commons Reboot Of The Fosil-Based Heroic Inquiry Cycle, Darryl Toerien, Hugh Rose

Learning Hub

This brief multimedia article discusses the Creative Commons reboot of FOSIL-based Heroic Inquiry in two parts. The first part is a written reflection by Darryl Toerien on the collaborative development of Heroic Inquiry (1.x) at Blanchelande College in 2021, which is the alignment of the stages in the FOSIL-based inquiry process (2010) with the stages in the Hero's Journey, and then the reasons for the collaborative redevelopment of Heroic Inquiry (2.x) for the FOSIL Symposium in 2025. The second part is a recorded reflection by Hugh Rose on his visual interpretation of the design brief for Heroic Inquiry (2.x).

Conducting Effective Literature Searches And Writing Strong Abstracts, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This invited presentation for students at Poland's War Studies University communicates ideas on how Ph.D. students at this institution can enhance their research quality. Specific content includes formulating your research question, determining research aims and methodology, reviewing a research question checklist, understanding the meaning of search terms you propose to utilize, devising effective search strategies, consulting multiple varieties of information resources from multiple countries, finding gaps in literature, being able to distinguish between nuances in literature and data, writing succinct abstracts, and enhancing the clarity of your prose.

Building A Professional Learning Community To Improve Technical Services Librarians’ Teaching Preparedness: Assess, Act And Reflect, Junli Diao

Publications and Research

This action research was conducted to address the gap between having all librarians prepared to teach and technical services librarians’ unpreparedness to teach in a university library system. The implemented intervention was developing a professional learning community among technical services librarians with a variety of teaching experiences to improve teaching preparedness by sharing, discussing, and reflecting. The learning topics covered library teaching basics, motivating students, self-assessment, planning to teach, using Wikipedia for critical thinking, embedded librarianship and credit-bearing courses, teaching and research, and building a teaching portfolio and librarianship portfolio. A qualitative approach, including the implementation journal, reflective writing, and …

Understanding Bias And Using Wikipedia - Slides, Mandi Goodsett

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Avoiding Misinformation Online - Slides, Mandi Goodsett

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Evidence Synthesis And Graduate Researchers: Benefits And Barriers, Corinne Bishop, Sarah Norris, Jason D. Phillips

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Detailed Description:

With the increased interest in evidence synthesis research in social sciences and fields outside of the health sciences, more librarians are actively involved in consulting and collaborating with researchers, with some also participating as co-authors on projects (Chapman, 2021; Kogut, Ramirez, & Foster, 2022). Based on individual requests, librarians may conduct comprehensives searches, document and report searches to ensure reproducibility, and/or assist with question refinement, protocol development, citation management tools, and evidence synthesis software.

To support evidence synthesis researchers, libraries are identifying support models and deciding on the scope of assistance they can provide. Within this process, …

Library At The Concert Hall: An Interdisciplinary Library Outreach Strategy For Unexpected Spaces, Michael J. Duffy Iv, Jessica M. Abbazio

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

This poster highlights strategies for staging pop-up libraries aligned with campus events. The presenters share perspectives on connecting with campus affiliates and community members at performing arts venues at two separate institutions, and share longitudinal data that illustrates the value of this outreach strategy for engaging a range of potential library users. Attendees will explore ideas for highlighting connections between potential visitors’ interests and library collections, and discover strategies for collaborating with library colleagues across disciplines to meet these needs. Participants will learn methods for leveraging this flexible approach to fit their own capacity and collection parameters. Objective 1: Explore …

“We’Re Librarians”: Using Tiktok To Connect Students With Information Literacy Skills, Hannah Krauss

All Musselman Library Staff Works

This poster presentation details the ways that Musselman Library has utilized TikTok and other short form video apps to engage with their users and teach bite-sized information literacy concepts. The poster reviews relevant pedagogy and gives suggestions to other libraries looking to start their own TikTok accounts.

Artificial Intelligence In The Library: Assessing Chatbots And Chatgpt Presentation, Michelle Ehrenpreis, John P. Delooper

Publications and Research

In Spring 2023, the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College (CUNY) conducted an assessment of its library chatbot which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT API with the goal of improving its functionality and performance. This presentation highlights the assessment’s findings, including types of questions asked, and areas where the chatbot succeeds and where it struggles. Additionally, the presenters will detail the creation of a rubric to measure the accuracy and completeness of the chatbot’s answers for users. Through this presentation, the authors will showcase best practices for libraries looking to implement or experiment with chatbots at a time when use of artificial …

Integrating Library Support Into Montclair State University's Student Management System, Jacob Bilek, Perri Moreno

University Libraries Scholarship and Creative Works

Although many universities have adopted student management systems (SMS) such as Navigate or Starfish to track and communicate with students about their academic progress, libraries have had little involvement with these platforms. This poster presents a case study of a Library’s integration as a referral point in Navigate. Faculty are now able to raise ad-hoc alerts that refer students to research support at the library. In addition to providing another avenue of research support, librarians are also able to keep faculty informed throughout the process, something not integrated into other systems of library support.

Objective 1: Observe a case study …

Review Of News Literacy Across The Undergraduate Curriculum, Edited By Amy M. Damico And Melissa M. Yang, Taylor J. Greene

Library Articles and Research

A review of News Literacy Across the Undergraduate Curriculum, edited by Amy M. Damico and Melissa M. Yang.

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - April 2025, The George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

No abstract provided.